Exiguobacterium antarcticum (DSM 22015, JCM 14376, MTCC 4816)

Name: Exiguobacterium antarcticum (DSM 22015, JCM 14376, MTCC 4816)
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BacDive ID 18120

Type strain

Culture col. no. DSM 22015 JCM 14376 MTCC 4816 DVS 3Y

NCBI tax ID(s) 132920

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Exiguobacterium antarcticum DSM 22015 is an aerobe, mesophilic, Gram-positive prokaryote that was isolated from Moraine sample.

Gram-positive motile coccus-shaped aerobe mesophilic 16S sequence

Name and taxonomic classification

SI-ID 401707

MTCC 4816,JCM 14376,DSM 22015

@ref 20215

Last LPSN update 2025-12-16 09:51:16

Domain Bacillati

Phylum Bacillota

Class Bacilli

Order Caryophanales

Family Bacillaceae

Genus Exiguobacterium

Species Exiguobacterium antarcticum

Full scientific name Exiguobacterium antarcticum Frühling et al. 2002

Synonyms (1)

Exiguobacterium soli

BacDive ID	Other strains from **Exiguobacterium antarcticum** (1)	Type strain
18107	E. antarcticum H2, DSM 14480, CIP 107163, KCTC 3809, CCUG ... (type strain)

Morphology

Cell morphology

@ref	Gram stain	Cell length	Cell width	Cell shape	Motility
31180	positive	1.5 µm	1.15 µm	coccus-shaped

Pigmentation

31180

Productionyes

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

@ref	Name	Growth	Medium link	Composition
16103	TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92)		Medium recipe at MediaDive	Name: TRYPTICASE SOY YEAST EXTRACT MEDIUM (DSMZ Medium 92) Composition: Trypticase soy broth 30.0 g/l Agar 15.0 g/l Yeast extract 3.0 g/l Distilled water

Culture temp

@ref	Growth	Type	Temperature (°C)	Range
16103	positive	growth	25	mesophilic
31180	positive	growth	2.5-30
31180	positive	optimum	25	mesophilic
67770	positive	growth	25	mesophilic

Culture pH

@ref	Ability	Type	PH	PH range
31180	positive	optimum	7
31180	positive	growth	06-10	alkaliphile

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

31180

Oxygen toleranceaerobe

Spore formation

31180

Spore formationno

Halophily

@ref	Salt	Growth	Tested relation	Concentration
31180	NaCl	positive	growth	0-5.8 %
31180	NaCl	positive	optimum	0-5.8 %

Murein

@ref	Murein short key	Type
16103	A11.01	A3alpha L-Lys-Gly

Observation

@ref	Observation
31180	aggregates in chains
67770	quinones: MK-6, MK-7, MK-8

Metabolite utilization

@ref	Chebi-ID	Metabolite	Utilization activity	Kind of utilization tested
31180	58143 ChEBI	5-dehydro-D-gluconate	+	carbon source
31180	16449 ChEBI	alanine	+	carbon source
31180	22599 ChEBI	arabinose	+	carbon source
31180	29016 ChEBI	arginine	+	carbon source
31180	22653 ChEBI	asparagine	+	carbon source
31180	17057 ChEBI	cellobiose	+	carbon source
31180	23652 ChEBI	dextrin	+	carbon source
31180	4853 ChEBI	esculin	+	hydrolysis
31180	28757 ChEBI	fructose	+	carbon source
31180	28260 ChEBI	galactose	+	carbon source
31180	17234 ChEBI	glucose	+	carbon source
31180	29987 ChEBI	glutamate	+	carbon source
31180	15428 ChEBI	glycine	+	carbon source
31180	28087 ChEBI	glycogen	+	carbon source
31180	27570 ChEBI	histidine	+	carbon source
31180	24996 ChEBI	lactate	+	carbon source
31180	17716 ChEBI	lactose	+	carbon source
31180	25017 ChEBI	leucine	+	carbon source
31180	17306 ChEBI	maltose	+	carbon source
31180	37684 ChEBI	mannose	+	carbon source
31180	28053 ChEBI	melibiose	+	carbon source
31180	18257 ChEBI	ornithine	+	carbon source
31180	26271 ChEBI	proline	+	carbon source
31180	15361 ChEBI	pyruvate	+	carbon source
31180	16634 ChEBI	raffinose	+	carbon source
31180	26546 ChEBI	rhamnose	+	carbon source
31180	33942 ChEBI	ribose	+	carbon source
31180	30911 ChEBI	sorbitol	+	carbon source
31180	17992 ChEBI	sucrose	+	carbon source
31180	27082 ChEBI	trehalose	+	carbon source
31180	18222 ChEBI	xylose	+	carbon source

Enzymes

@ref	Value	Activity	Ec
31180	acid phosphatase	+	3.1.3.2
31180	alkaline phosphatase	+	3.1.3.1
31180	catalase	+	1.11.1.6
31180	cytochrome oxidase	+	1.9.3.1
31180	gelatinase	+

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Cat1	Cat2	Cat3
#Environmental	#Terrestrial	#Glacier

Isolation

@ref	Sample type	Country	Country ISO 3 Code	Continent	Geographic location
16103	Moraine sample			Australia and Oceania	McMurdo Dry Valleys
67770	Moraine sample from the McMurdo Dry Valleys	Antarctica	ATA	Antarctica

Taxonmaps

69479

Global distribution of 16S sequence AY864633 (>99% sequence identity) for Exiguobacterium from Microbeatlas

Aquatic Samples	7226
Soil Samples	2271
Animal Samples	5645
Plant Samples	2061
Total Samples	17203

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

@ref	Biosafety level	Biosafety level comment
16103	1	Risk group (German classification) According to TRBA 466

Sequence information

Genome sequences

@ref	Description	Assembly level	IMG accession	NCBI tax ID	Score	BV-BRC accession
66792	Exiguobacterium soli DSM 22015	complete	2913394191	309483	80.32
66792	Exiguobacterium soli strain DSM 22015	contig		309483	59.92	309483.3

16S sequences

@ref	Description	Accession	Length	Database	NCBI tax ID
16103	Exiguobacterium sp. DVS3y 16S ribosomal RNA gene, partial sequence	AY864633	1518		309483

GC content

16103

GC-content (mol%)48.5

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Predictions from Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 based on: Exiguobacterium soli strain DSM 22015
PATRIC: 309483.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125439	spore_formation	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	64.30	no
125439	motility	BacteriaNetⓘ	yes	69.00	no
125439	gram_stain	BacteriaNetⓘ	variable	81.60	no
125439	oxygen_tolerance	BacteriaNetⓘ	obligate aerobe	78.50	no

Predictions from bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets based on: Exiguobacterium soli strain DSM 22015
PATRIC: 309483.3

@ref	Trait	Model	Prediction	Confidence in %	In training data
125438	gram-positive	gram-positiveⓘ	yes	79.17	no
125438	anaerobic	anaerobicⓘ	no	95.39	yes
125438	spore-forming	spore-formingⓘ	yes	51.46	yes
125438	aerobic	aerobicⓘ	yes	63.99	yes
125438	thermophilic	thermophileⓘ	no	95.75	yes
125438	flagellated	motile2+ⓘ	yes	81.82	no

Literature

Topic	Title	Authors	Journal	DOI	Year
Genetics	Isolation and Characterization of Strain Exiguobacterium sp. KRL4, a Producer of Bioactive Secondary Metabolites from a Tibetan Glacier.	Tedesco P, Palma Esposito F, Masino A, Vitale GA, Tortorella E, Poli A, Nicolaus B, van Zyl LJ, Trindade M, de Pascale D.	Microorganisms	10.3390/microorganisms9050890	2021
Phylogeny	Exiguobacterium soli sp. nov., a psychrophilic bacterium from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica.	Chaturvedi P, Prabahar V, Manorama R, Pindi PK, Bhadra B, Begum Z, Shivaji S	Int J Syst Evol Microbiol	10.1099/ijs.0.2008/000067-0	2008

References

#16103	Leibniz Institut DSMZ-Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH ; Curators of the DSMZ; DSM 22015
#20215	Parte, A.C., Sardà Carbasse, J., Meier-Kolthoff, J.P., Reimer, L.C. and Göker, M.: List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) moves to the DSMZ. IJSEM ( DOI 10.1099/ijsem.0.004332 )
#27507	IJSEM 2447 2008 ( DOI 10.1099/ijs.0.2008/000067-0 , PubMed 18842873 )
#31180	Barberan A, Caceres Velazquez H, Jones S, Fierer N.: Hiding in Plain Sight: Mining Bacterial Species Records for Phenotypic Trait Information. mSphere 2: 2017 ( DOI 10.1128/mSphere.00237-17 , PubMed 28776041 ) - originally annotated from #27507
#66792	Julia Koblitz, Joaquim Sardà, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Boyke Bunk, Jörg Overmann: Automatically annotated for the DiASPora project (Digital Approaches for the Synthesis of Poorly Accessible Biodiversity Information) .
#67770	Japan Collection of Microorganism (JCM) ; Curators of the JCM;
#69479	João F Matias Rodrigues, Janko Tackmann,Gregor Rot, Thomas SB Schmidt, Lukas Malfertheiner, Mihai Danaila,Marija Dmitrijeva, Daniela Gaio, Nicolas Näpflin and Christian von Mering. University of Zurich.: MicrobeAtlas 1.0 beta .
#125438	Julia Koblitz, Lorenz Christian Reimer, Rüdiger Pukall, Jörg Overmann: Predicting bacterial phenotypic traits through improved machine learning using high-quality, curated datasets. 2024 ( DOI 10.1101/2024.08.12.607695 )
#125439	Philipp Münch, René Mreches, Martin Binder, Hüseyin Anil Gündüz, Xiao-Yin To, Alice McHardy: deepG: Deep Learning for Genome Sequence Data. R package version 0.3.1 .
#126262	A. Lissin, I. Schober, J. F. Witte, H. Lüken, A. Podstawka, J. Koblitz, B. Bunk, P. Dawyndt, P. Vandamme, P. de Vos, J. Overmann, L. C. Reimer: StrainInfo—the central database for linked microbial strain identifiers. ( DOI 10.1093/database/baaf059 )

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Exiguobacterium antarcticum (DSM 22015, JCM 14376, MTCC 4816)

Name and taxonomic classification

Morphology

Cell morphology

Pigmentation

Culture and growth conditions

Culture medium

Culture temp

Culture pH

Physiology and metabolism

Oxygen tolerance

Spore formation

Halophily

Murein

Observation

Metabolite utilization

Enzymes

Isolation, sampling and environmental information

Isolation source categories

Isolation

Taxonmaps

Interaction and safety

Risk assessment

Sequence information

Genome sequences

16S sequences

GC content

Genome-based predictions

Predictions

Literature

Literature

References

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